UK Policing News

The mother of a girl arrested for saying a police officer looked like her 'lesbian nana' said she is the same cop in a viral video spraying a crowd in Leeds on Sunday. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12665953/Police-officer-pepper-spraying-brawl-one-arrested-autistic-girl-watchdog.html

Two men and a woman have been arrested by the National Crime Agency as part of an investigation into a crime group alleged to be involved in smuggling people to the UK using small boats. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/three-arrested-in-nca-investigation-into-small-boats-agent

A black holdall containing as much as 30kg of cocaine has washed up on a beach – the fourth time huge quantities of drugs have landed on the South Coast this month. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12663641/Armed-police-patrol-Sussex-beach-haul-cocaine-washes-ashore-South-Coast-fourth-time-month.html

Video footage captured the moment police seized a large dog after it attacked a puppy in Croydon, south London. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659273/Moment-armed-police-seize-large-dog-attacked-puppy-Croydon.html

Police have launched a manhunt for two inmates who they believe have absconded from a prison together. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12658737/Manhunt-prisoners-HMP-Hollesley-Bay-police-issue-warning.html

The suspect, who is accused of running a drugs line to Brighton, was arrested and taken to a police station in Sussex https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/gallery/photos-show-how-met-police-27954562

Three men have been convicted of the murder of Taylor Cox in Islington after an investigation by the Met. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-investigation-results-in-three-men-being-convicted-of-murder-474092

An IT engineer from Bristol who arranged to meet young girls at an airport hotel so that he could sexually abuse them has been jailed for two years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/registered-sex-offender-packed-sweets-and-toys-for-girls-he-intended-to-abuse-in-hotel-room

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/14/london-police-defy-ban-on-badges-linked-to-far-right-and-white-supremacy Metropolitan police officers are openly defying orders not to wear badges appropriated by the far right and linked to white supremacy. I think it's completely unfair to portray the thin blue line badge this way. If officers have been ordered not to wear it and are still doing so then that is a problem but only in the sense of refusing to follow orders. I think neutrality is very important in the police and in general they shouldn't wear any badges of support for any cause, but I have no issue with the TBL one as it's not really political, just…

A £165,000-a-year police chief once tipped for top job at The Met is at the centre of a fakery storm today after he was accused of wearing a Falklands War combat service medal - despite only being a 15-year-old sea cadet at the time. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12573043/Police-chief-57-accused-lying-fought-Argentina-Falklands-War-wearing-combat-medal-just-15-time-conflict-dismissed-force-watchdog-launches-probe.html Disgusting if true to wear a medal that don,t belong to him and this will make a lot of war veterans very unhappy who won them fighting in the Falklands war.

This is the shocking moment a knife-wielding phone thief repeatedly stabbed two Met Police officers in a horrific attack in London's West End. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12622717/Shocking-moment-knife-wielding-phone-robber-repeatedly-stabs-two-Met-Police-officers-horrific-attack-Londons-West-End.html Lets hope the judge gives him a long sentence.